Meryl Streep Blasts Popular Film Review Site

Meryl Streep fights for the right to vote in her upcoming film Suffragette, but the Oscar-winning actress is fighting for women's rights behind the scenes, too. At a panel to promote her film at the BFI London Film Festival premiere last night, Streep was quick to blast popular movie and TV review website Rotten Tomatoes—as well as others—for employing as few as one female critic for every four male reviewers.

"The word isn't 'disheartening,'" Streep said at the panel, as reported by People. "It's 'infuriating.'" The actress was talking about the divide between female and male critics she discovered when she "went deep, deep, deep, deep into Rotten Tomatoes," and counted the site's contributors, including its critics and bloggers. What she found amounts to only one woman for every four men—or, as she counted it, 168 women and 760 men "who weigh in on the Tomatometer."

Streep also targeted the [New York Film Critics](http://www.nyfcc.com/), which lists just six women out of 31 critics on their membership page.
"I submit to you that men and women are not the same," she told the panel. "They like different things. Sometimes they like the same things, but their tastes diverge. If the Tomatometer is slided so completely to one set of tastes, that drives box office in the U.S., absolutely." Here, here!
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Do you think women should be more represented on movie review sites such as Rotten Tomatoes?